Improvement in frames for dyeing cloth



E. BRIERLEY. Frames for Dyeing Cloth. No. 166,450l PatenredAug.1o,1875.

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EDWARD BRIERLEY, 0F MILTON MILLS, NEW HAMPSHIRE.l

IMPROVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR DVEING CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,450, dated August10, 1875; application filed June 1, 1875.

To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD BRIERLEY, ofMilton Mills, of the county of Straiford and State of New Hampshire,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Frames for Dyeing Cloth inFancy Patterns or Stripes; and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, ofwhich- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, Fig. 3 an end view, Fig. 4 a horizontal and longitudinalsection, Fig. 5 a transverse section, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section,of one of my improved dye-frames, with cloth arranged therein for beingdyed. Fig. 7 is a top view, and Fig. 8 an end view, of one of the seriesof connected parallel bars.

The present invention has reference to that for which Letters Patent No. 6,932, dated December ll, 1849, were granted to me, the dye-` framesreferred to and described in the speciication and drawings of saidpatent being capable of dyeing cloth with parallel stripes of one coloronly, with intermediate stripes of the color of the cloth.

My present improvement enables a piece of cloth to be dyed with parallelstripes of two different colors with intermediate stripes of groundcolor. By the term ground color I Y mean the color ofthe cloth before itis dyedthat is to say, if we suppose the ground color to be white, l candye the cloth so that there shall be red and blue stripes alternatingwith white spaces or stripes between them.

In the drawings, A A A denote a series of the sections of parallel barslaid one over the other in a pile, and between two plates or boards, BC, each section A being composed of a series ot' long quadrilateralpressers or bars, a. a a, arranged at equal distances apart,

and connected by two bars, b b, going transversely ythrough the series,each bar b having a vertical thickness less than that of each bar a-thatis, about one-third thereof. The piece of cloth to be dyed is shown atF. It is rst laid on the lower section, resting on the board C, afterwhich another section is laid on the cloth, and directly over the rstsection. This done, the cloth is next to be turned up around and againstthe next contiguous ends of the bars of the upper of the two sections,and thence it is to be laid over the upper surfaces of the said uppersection, after which another section should be laid over the cloth.

The cloth and sections are thus to be, arranged-that is, in manner asrepresented in the drawings-and after the top plate or board B may havebeen placed over the sections the whole is to be clamped together by aseries of clamps, each consisting of two bars, ef, and two screw-rods, gg, provided with two nuts, h h, all being as and arranged asrepresented.

Instead of making .each end covering-frame D with a series of verticalbars corresponding in their widths to the bars of the sections, asrepresented in my patent aforesaid, I construct each bar of a widthsuflicient to cause it to entirely cover the ends of any two nextadjacent section-bars and the space between them,

there being between each two bars of the end frame a space equal inwidth to a space between two neXt adjacent bars of a section. In thedrawings each of the bars of each of the end frames is shown at h', thespaces between them being seen at z' i i.

The end fra-mes, having been placed against the pile of sections andcloth, and being provided on their inner surfaces, where to bear againstthe sectionbars,with vertical strips k k, of vulcanized rubber or rubbercloth, are to be clamped firmly to the pile by means ot' bolts l l andnuts o 0, arranged and applied in manner as represented. The dye-framewill then be ready for being immersed in the dyevat, which, with theframe, will cause the cloth to be dyed with stripes of one color, havingbetween each two next adjacent ones a stripe of the ground color ot'three times the width of each of the dyed stripes so produced by thedyeing process. After the cloth may have been so dyed, the end framesare to be removed i'rom the pile, and others of similar charactersubstituted, but having their bars arranged so as to cover the cloth atthe ends of the pile, except when it may be desirable to have stripesot' another color.

Fig. 9 represents such an end-frame. On

the dye-frame being next inserted in a vat of color different from thatlirst dyed, this second color will be dyed in stripes which will bemidway between the stripes previously dyed.

Metal plates in the sectional frames are obspace between them of each ofthe sectional.

jcctionztblc in several respects, particularly on frames, all being toenable the cloth .to be account ot'theii1 liability tooxidizc,whichren-4 dyedl with stripes of di'erent colors7 as set ders itdifficult to keep them clean. forth.

l claim as my invention or iinprovement--Y'- EDWARD BRIERLEY. In theabove-described'dye-frame, the end Witnesses:

frames D, having bars which severally lap on R; H. EDDY,

and cover two next adjacent bars and the J. R. SNOW.

